Our Annual Picnic

President's Message

Hello to our website visitors. The San Diego Prowlers are now well into our 71st year. It is August and it's hot even in San Diego. This was our first Summer
since the early '70s that we haven't staged our annual

"Picnic and Ol' Timers Reunion". It really feels good to relax a little and have time to drive our hot rods and maybe even work on them a little.

As promised we are reinventing ourselves back into "doing whatever we want" for a change and leave the event planning to promoters who enjoy that stuff!

We are still the unchallenged "oldest hot rod club" continuously corrupting young men since 1947 so please dig in to our webpages and visit the hot rod club that
has been there the whole time. See the men, cars and their hobby from post WWII to the present that was the laboratory of power and style that helped shape today’s automobile.

News

San Diego Prowlers Hot Rod Club - Celebrate 60 Years of Hot Rodding

The San Diego Prowlers proved that even after 60 years of hot rodding, we can still throw a barn-burher of a car show. We also want to thank our sponsors who generously supplied items for
our raffles and winning cars. Sponsors were:

Meguiars Auto Wash

Ecology Auto Recycling

Napa Auto Parts

Hi-Tech Auto Polish

Valley Transmission Repair

Dick's Sporting Goods

Well as you can see, we were not the only ones who thought that a 60 year old hot rod club outing was a big deal, the 5 page spread in 'Street Rodder Magazine' says something about it. We
want to thank everyone at Street Rodder for coming and spending a day with us at Bates Nut Farm. We love your magazine too!

That much ink on little ole us, well it was pretty gratifying.

We all had fun. Mom's, Dad's, and especially kids had a great time throughout the entire day.

Some amazingly beautiful cars showed up.

Every kind of hot rod is always welcome at a Prowlers Picnic and Car show.

We counted over 400 cars came during the day. This is what a car show is all about. Each car is different. Each one is a work of art. All are beautiful in their own
way.

Life is good!

2008 Picnic at Bates Nut Farm

Bruce Hamilton Donates Vintage Club Minutes

Special thanks goes to Inactive Prowler Bruce Hamilton, member #87. At our 60th Anniversary Picnic held in September 2007, Bruce presented to the club our club minutes from the years 1948 through
1951. Our living Charter Members have told us they believe minutes were not taken at meetings during our first year of 1947. Previously, we had in our possession club minutes dating back only to
1952. Included were minutes of the Russetta Timing Association meetings from 1948, (the Prowlers were members of the RTA back in the early days). It has been a real hoot reading the early minutes at
our regular meetings after the previous meeting's minutes are read. Bruce is a true friend of the Prowlers and is interested in the continued success of the club. Oh, by the way, did I mention Bruce
paid for the band at the picnic?